Katherine Jean Tyacke
Item
- Title
- Katherine Jean Tyacke
- Identifier
- BVF45_FQ
- Description
- This is a fascinating interview with Katherine Jean Tyacke and her daughter, Sheila, for the South African Banned Persons Memory Project, detailing Jean's life and her experience with a banning order during the apartheid era. Jean Tyacke, an American immigrant, initially came to South Africa to help organise the Young Christian Workers (YCW) and later became involved in the Urban Training Project (UTP), which educated Black workers on trade union rights, an activity the apartheid state saw as a threat to public order. The 1976 banning order, which was imposed on both Jean and her husband Eric, severely restricted their freedom of association, movement, and ability to work, although they eventually gained exemptions, such as Jean's administrative job at WITS University. The interview also highlights the painful personal impact of the banning on their family, particularly the shaming and shunning their children experienced living in a conservative white area, which is vividly contextualised by information gleaned from declassified Security Police records detailing intense surveillance of their activities and their racially mixed social life.
- Date Created
- November 8, 2020
- Source
- BVF45—South African Banned Persons Memory Project -- University of Cape Town Libraries, Special Collections, Cape Town, South Africa.
- Subject
- Banned persons (South Africa) See all items with this value
- Apartheid See all items with this value
- Political socialization See all items with this value
- Political activists See all items with this value
- Interviews See all items with this value
- Oral histories See all items with this value
- Spatial Coverage
- Gauteng (South Africa) See all items with this value
- Extent
- 00:28:46
- 14 pages
- 28 minutes, 46 seconds
- Language
- English
- License
-
CC BY-NC-SA 4.0
- Contributor
- Tyacke, Katherine Jean
- Publisher
- University of Cape Town. Libraries
- Rights
- University of Cape Town. Libraries
- Provenance
- Special Collections: Archival Film
- genre
- Interviews
- Oral histories
- fileFormat
- mp4
- Medium
- Moving Image
- Transcript
